{"id":24630,"date":"2025-09-16T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24630\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:27:10","slug":"simon-schuster-childrens-swoops-in-for-witchy-middle-grade-series-with-six-figure-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24630\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon &#038; Schuster Children\u2019s swoops in for witchy middle-grade series with six-figure deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/rights\/rights\" class=\"aos-SectionTitle aos-NM aos-FL aos-MR10px aos-MB5px\">Rights<\/a>Sep 15, 2025by\u00a0Cassidy Bailey<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/web-Jenny--Katya-Katya-photo-credit-Patrick-Simpson.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Pearson and Katya Balen \u00a9 Patrick Simpson\" title=\"Jenny Pearson and Katya Balen \u00a9 Patrick Simpson\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jenny Pearson and Katya Balen \u00a9 Patrick Simpson<\/p>\n<p>Simon &amp; Schuster Children\u2019s Books has pre-empted the rights to Hex and Hilda, a middle-grade series from multi-award-winning authors Katya Balen and Jenny Pearson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You&#8217;ve hit your free article limit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Serious about the book trade?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/subscribe?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join thousands of industry professionals who never miss a story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sign in or create a free account to unlock 2 articles a month and receive tailored newsletters with the latest from the book trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Want full access? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/subscribe?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> from just \u00a33.65 a week and unlock full access to exclusive interviews, rights deals, industry data and more:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\ud83d\udddeWeekly print copies of The Bookseller magazine\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcf1Unlimited access to thebookseller.com (single user)\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udcbbThe Bookseller digital edition for desktop, tablet and mobile\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc8cSubscriber-only newsletters\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcdaTwice-yearly Buyer\u2019s Guides worth \u00a330\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udca1Discounts on events and conferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RightsSep 15, 2025by\u00a0Cassidy Bailey Jenny Pearson and Katya Balen \u00a9 Patrick Simpson Simon &amp; Schuster Children\u2019s Books has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-24630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}